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The aim of untold millions is to be free to do exactly as they choose and for someone else to pay when things go wrong.
As long as we work on God's line, He will aid us. When we attempt to work on our own lines, He rebukes us with failure.
The ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest.
The Irish believed that gods, druids, poets, and others in touch with the magical world could be literal shape-shifters
Wealth is more often the result of a lifestyle of hard work, perseverance, planning, and, most of all, self-discipline.
The greatest need of our time is to clean out the enormous mass of mental and emotional rubbish that clutters our minds
It is in the ordinary duties and labors of life that the Christian can and should develop his spiritual union with God.
When you reread your journal you find out that your newest discovery is something you already found out five years ago.
So I got home, and the phone was ringing. I picked it up, and said 'Who's speaking please?' And a voice said 'You are.'
Pain will never leave us. Instead of putting energy into destroying pain, we need to put energy into creating pleasure.
Without exception, the dominance and coherence of culture proved to be an essential quality of the excellent companies.
It is the role of the poet to look at what is happening in the world and to know that quite other things are happening.
The peculiar foreign superstition that the English do not like love, the evidence being that they do not talk about it.
If the dreams of any so-called normal man were exposed ... there would be no more gravity and dignity left for mankind.
Desire is like fog on a bathroom mirror -- its presence incites you to wipe the mirror, and see yourself clearly again.
If you don't accept yourself, you won't live fully, and if you don't live fully you'll need to get full some other way.
Habituation is indeed a fact of human psychology. That's one reason we like novelty, including different cuts of jeans.
By reshaping or decorating our outer selves, we express our inner sense of self: 'I like that' becomes 'I'm like that.'
Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.
Why does Samuel Butler say, 'Wise men never say what they think of women'? Wise men never say anything else apparently.
Consolation for those moments when you can't tell whether you're the divinest genius or the greatest fool in the world.
Habits and customs are a convenience devised for the support of timid natures who dare not allow their souls free play.
There are moments when one can neither think nor feel, she thought, and if one can neithre feel nor think, where's one?
The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third.
It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.
How inexpressible is the meanness of being a hypocrite! how horrible is it to be a mischievous and malignant hypocrite.
The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.
I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pleasure I have left.
But in this country it is necessary, now and then, to put one admiral to death in order to inspire the others to fight.
Never draw anything you can copy, never copy anything you can trace, never trace anything you can cut out and paste up.
He has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so.
While the right to talk may be the beginning of freedom, the necessity of listening is what makes that right important.
Politicians tend to live "in character" and many a public figure has come to imitate the journalism that describes him.
Those times when you feel like quitting can be times of great opportunity, for God uses your troubles to help you grow.
Let God enlarge you when you are going through distress. He can do it. You can't do it, and others can't do it for you.
If we see only the problems, we will be defeated; but if we see the possibilities in the problems, we can have victory.
There is something about veganism that is not easy, but the difficulty is not inherent in veganism, but in our culture.
Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.
The most phlegmatic dispositions often contain the most inflammable spirits, as fire is struck from the hardest flints.
The merit of persons is to be no rule of our charity, but we are to do acts of kindness to those that least deserve it.
On the old highway maps of America, the main routes were red and the back roads blue. Now even the colors are changing.
For me, writing is not a search for explanations but a ramble in quest of what informs a place, a hunt for equivalents.
Few people realize how badly they write. Nobody has shown them how much excess or murkiness has crept into their style.
Whenever we can make 25 words do the work of 50, we halve the area in which looseness and disorganization can flourish.
God is looking for willing hearts... God has no favorites. You do not have to be special, but you have to be available.
Even when I'm writing plays I enjoy having company and mentally I think of that company as the company I'm writing for.
A lot of London's image never was. There never was a Dickensian London, or a Shakespearean London, or a swinging London.
I am very interested in loyalty, even if the person to whom one is loyal is flawed, criminal, or otherwise in the wrong.
I don't want the news to be patriotic. I don't want to see flags on the lapels of the anchors. I don't want any of that.
Love, like light, is a thing that is enacted better than defined: we know it afterward by the traces it leaves on paper.